British writer Ian Watson (St. Albans, England, 1943) died this month at the age of 82 Gijón, the city where he lived since 2011. It specializes in science fictionwrote dozens of novels. At first job, Insertion (translated into Spanish as Empotrados), received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo. With his second novella, Kit Jonah (Model Jonas), won the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Orbit Award. También fue Grandmaster of the European Science Fiction Society.
Also he wrote between 1990 and 1991 with Stanley Kubrick, the film’s director Artificial intelligencewhich was directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2001.
Watson first attended the Black Week Literary Festival in Gijón in 2001 and returned in 2010 to move to the Asturian city with a writer and translator. Cristina Macía, who happened to be in 2013informs El Comercio. Since 2012, I have been participating in the festival of fantasy literature and science fiction every year Celsius 232 of Avilésof which she was co-director.
He studied English literature at Oxford University, taught at universities in Tanzania, Japan and the Birmingham School of Art History before turning to literature full-time.
After a trio of science fiction, fantasy and terror novels, Watson also published a poem Memory man and various related books.
“We are very sorry for the failure of our friend Ian Watson,” explained the Celsius festival in a red social “X” profile, in which he defined himself to the author as “an extraordinary writer and a key piece of the festival” and pointed out that “the family welcomes a special show”, while asking for “privacy” in these moments.
It then informs the EFE, as stated in the last request, to express the desire for error which does not include flowers in your memory, but books.
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